Jo has over 15 years of farming experience and returned to the Valley after 11 years in Philadelphia, where she co-founded and was Director of the Mill Creek Farm, a non-profit educational urban farm. She received a Bachelors from Smith College and a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania with a Certificate in Land Preservation. She is currently working at Equity Trust as Program Associate for the Farms for Farmers program, developing a program to address land tenure issues facing urban agriculture, and at Food Solutions New England as the Community Organizer and Communications Coordinator